The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 9
The beautiful Princess sat at her window and watched the bold knights trying to reach her on their splendid horses.
Who acts: beautiful Princess, bold knights · What happens: sit, watch, try, reach · To what, where: window, bold knights, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful Princess, bold knights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | amod |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 window | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 window | nmod:poss |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 watched | cc |
| 9 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knights | det |
| 11 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knights | amod |
| 12 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 watched | obj |
| 13 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 knights | acl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 reach | mark |
| 15 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trying | xcomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reach | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 horses | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horses | nmod:poss |
| 19 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 horses | amod |
| 20 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reach | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the beautiful Princess | Princess's window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | the beautiful Princess not said here | the bold knights | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | the bold knights not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | reach not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bold knights not said here | Princess | on knights's splendid horses | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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